Kit‐Ying Chung, Ibis K.‐C. Cheng, Arthur K.‐K. Ching, Jian‐Hong Chu, Paul B.‐S. Lai, Nathalie Wong – 21 April 2011 – Genomic amplification of regional chromosome 8q24 is a common event in human cancers. In hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), a highly aggressive malignancy that is rapidly fatal, recurrent 8q24 gains can be detected in >50% of cases. In this study, attempts to resolve the 8q24 region by way of array comparative genomic hybridization for affected genes in HCC revealed distinctive gains of block of proliferation 1 (BOP1).

Giovanni Raimondo, Teresa Pollicino, Massimo Levrero, Antonio Craxì – 21 April 2011

Josep Maria Orellana‐Gavaldà, Laura Herrero, Maria Ida Malandrino, Guillermina Asins, Fausto G. Hegardt, Dolores Serra – 21 April 2011

Tamir Miloh, Ravinder Anand, Wendy Yin, Miriam Vos, Nanda Kerkar, Estella Alonso, for the Studies of Pediatric Liver Transplantation Research Group – 19 April 2011 – Primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC) is a rare cholestatic liver disease in children. The aim of this study was to determine the characteristics and outcomes of children with PSC who were listed for liver transplantation (LT).

Elena Citkowitz – 19 April 2011

Hans J. Schlitt, Françoise Mornex, Abraham Shaked, James F. Trotter – 19 April 2011

Jiwon Lyu, Sung‐Gyu Lee, Shin Hwang, Sang‐Oh Lee, Oh‐Hyun Cho, Eun Jin Chae, Sang Do Lee, Woo Sung Kim, Dong Soon Kim, Tae Sun Shim – 19 April 2011 – Although the detection and treatment of latent tuberculosis infections (LTBIs) in transplant candidates are essential, current diagnostic methods for LTBIs are limited, especially in immunocompromised subjects. Pretransplant chest computed tomography (CT) may reveal more LTBI foci and thus predict the development of posttransplant tuberculosis (TB) more efficiently; however, this hypothesis has not yet been investigated.

J. Ignacio Herrero, Fernando Pardo, Jorge Quiroga – 19 April 2011

Yun‐Fan Liaw – 18 April 2011 – This clinically relevant review focuses on recent findings concerning hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) quantitation in untreated patients and treated patients with chronic hepatitis B. Recent studies and emerging data have shown that both HBsAg and hepatitis B virus (HBV) DNA levels decline during the natural course of a chronic HBV infection; they are lowest in the inactive phase, which is also characterized by the highest HBsAg/HBV DNA ratio.

Rodrigo Vincenzi, João Seda Neto, Eduardo A. Fonseca, Vincenzo Pugliese, Katia R. M. Leite, Marcel R. Benavides, Helry Lopes Cândido, Gilda Porta, Irene K. Miura, Renata Pugliese, Vera B. Danesi, Teresa C. Guimarães, Adriana Porta, Mario Kondo, Eduardo Carone, Paulo Chapchap – 18 April 2011 – The increasing number of transplants performed each year has led to the identification of unusual diseases in liver grafts from asymptomatic donors that were unrecognized before liver transplantation. Here we report our experience with patients who received liver grafts infected with schistosomiasis.